A GOAT’S JIHAD ON STONING & SUCKLING
The sunni Islamic traditions contain some rather silly and embarrassing narrations, which have caused many a Muslim shame and humiliation.
Take, for example, the claim that Muhammad ordered a woman to breastfeed a mature young man a number of times in order to make him her foster-son! Or the fact that the sheet which contained this injunction that women can let a mature men suck their breasts a number of times, along the with verse on stoning adulterers, was eaten by a tame sheep!
All emphasis will be mine.
9 The Chapters on Marriage
(36) Chapter: Breastfeeding an adult
It was narrated that ‘Aishah said: “Sahlah bint Suhail came to the Prophet and said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, I see signs of displeasure on the face of Abu Hudhaifah when Salim enters upon me.” The Prophet said: “Breastfeed him.” She said: “How can I breastfeed him when he is a grown man?” The Messenger of Allah smiled and said: “I know that he is a grown man.” So she did that, then she came to the Prophet and said: “I have never seen any signs of displeasure on the face of Abu Hudhayfah after that.” And he was present at (the battle of) Badr.
Grade: Sahih (Darussalam)
Reference: Sunan Ibn Majah 1943
In-book reference: Book 9, Hadith 99
English translation: Vol. 3, Book 9, Hadith 1943 (https://sunnah.com/ibnmajah:1943)
And:
It was narrated that ‘Aishah said: “The Verse of stoning and of breastfeeding an adult ten times was revealed1, and the paper was with me under my pillow. When the Messenger of Allah died, we were preoccupied with his death, and a tame sheep came in and ate it.”
1: These verses were abrogated in recitation but not ruling. Other ahadith establish the number for fosterage to be 5.
Grade: Hasan (Darussalam)
Reference: Sunan Ibn Majah 1944
In-book reference: Book 9, Hadith 100
English translation: Vol. 3, Book 9, Hadith 1944 (https://sunnah.com/ibnmajah:1944)
Note that the command to breast feed ten times and the verse which abrogated it by reducing the number of suckling to five have both disappeared from the present Quranic texts. These verses are nowhere to be found!
That a sheep was able to devour and destroy the only copy which had the aforementioned instructions, verses that have completely disappeared from every surviving Quranic manuscript to date, adds further disgrace and shame to Muslims. The reason being is that Allah supposedly swore to protect the revelation, which he sent down, thereby guarding it from corruption:
Verily We: It is We Who have sent down the Dhikr (i.e. the Qur’an) and surely, We will guard it (from corruption). S. 15:9 Hilali-Khan
And yet the Muslim god proved utterly helpless and powerless to stop a domesticated animal from destroying the only manuscript which included these specific commandments, causing these revelations to be erased for time immemorial!
The real miracle of Islam is that there are folks who still believe in this nonsense, and are willing to murder individuals for it!
FURTHER READING
THE IMPERFECT QURAN PT. 2: BREASTFEEDING GROWN MEN
A Docile Beast Falsifies the Quran: How A Sheep Trumped Allah and His “Messenger”!